The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has relet his
Elm wood" home at Cambridge to Mrs Ole
Bull, and will remain abroad all winter.
ROBERT GARRETT's trip will consume year.
and .here are some Baltimoreans who say that
he doesn't whether he ever returns to that
city again or not
CUSTOMER getting measured)-How much
are these trousers going to cost met Tailor-
Twenty-Five dollars, sir. How many pockets do
YOU want in them2 Customer-None. / won't
need any pockets after I've paid for the trousers.
New York Sun.
In the OF his sermon, last Sunday,
preacher a. Firth, Neb said: There is not
cent in the treasury. not pound OF coal in the
bin, and We are several dollars in debs to the
girls for jantress work. Salvation and chls
are q poor combination, and the camp-fiTes of
holiness cannot be started with promises to pay"
ACCORDING to the London Globe hermetc-
ally scaled hottie of wine in 1877 exhumed
from the Roman cemetery of Allscamps. near
Aries, and i,s contents were analysed by Berthe
lot, the well-known French chemist. The
analysis shows that the liquid had retained
vinous character and contained Al per cent. of
alcohol
= LoKo MAYOR De KEYsER, of London, is the
| first Roman Catholic who has held that Office
since the Reformation. People now wonder
ine whether he WILL in accordance with almost
immemorial custom attend services at St Law
renee Jewry, ST. Pauls Cathedral and Christ
Matthews day
THE chapel which c. P. Huntington erected
| in honor of his dead mother. in the village of
| Harvinton, Conn, where he born,
| dedicated on Thursday with appropriate ssrvi-
| ces 1t is a handsome structure of granite, with
well-cnt facincs and stained glass windows.
| commanding wide view OF the neiehborlng
| valley and picturesque hills. The whole interior,
including walls, rafters and roof, is OF polished
| oak
| WHEN he was actually dying and when en-
| trely too weak to sign his name. the late Gov.
Bartlett, of California, told his brother that he
| had promised the mother Of young man inn
| prisoned for forgery that he would pardon her
| son after he had served three years. Convey
| my wishes, he said, ITO Waterman after l am
| dead, and know he will carry them ont" Gov.
Waterman has announced the promised
| pardon.
| Tom OCHILTREEs 'latest' is At the expense of
James Gordon Bennett. When told that the
editor of the Herald had returned from Europe
he evinced no surprise whatever and murrlured
"of course, of course" in the most matterof fact
tone. "But why of course" demanded his in
about it, anyhowa" Nothing" was the witty
Texans quick rejoinder, "orly-of course he's
| coming home to edit that new paper OF his in
| Paris"
ANDREW GARvEY. the New York contractor.
who took Tweed's money and then away
the Bcss's freedom. is still alive, but nothing is
| ever heard from him now. He is worth several
| millions, but he has no friends. For years men
| who were his friends have cut him SO d.
| rectly at every meeting that he never speaks to
| any one now unless first addressed He is a tall
man with flowing gray beard, aud-as may
we'll be imacined-has an unhappy if not hunted
| look, There is never much sympathy for an
| informer this loyalty loving world OF ours
and Mr.. Garvey's case was no exception to the
| rule.
Mr. GEORGE W. CHILDs has selected Mrs. l..
H. Darrah of Philadelphia, the artist who
will paint the portrait OF Lieutenant general
She ridan to be presented by him to the United
States Military Academy at West Point In
the portrait General Sheridan will be repre-
scented in the full dress uniform of his rank
holding in his right hand tho chapeau, both
resting a small table, on which will be spread
| a map Of that portion of Virginia EN- orac ne
Winchester. Mr.. Chiids has also ordered q Dor
trait of General Sherman to hang on the right
of that of General Grant in the same institution
WRITER in the Cosmopolitan says that wher
Sumter fred upon q naval officer. a South
Carolinian, who intense admirer 81
Charles Sumner, went to him in great trouble
.sWhat shall I do" he asked. IF my ship II
| ordered to the South to coerce my own peoplef
Read your commission, SIR" was the answer
s.But, suppose my ship is ordered to Charles
toni" Read your commission, sir But sup
pose she ranges her broadsdes against the city
| of nv birthr' Read your commission, sir.
was again the answer. But, Senator, what !
| am ordered to fire on my fathers Plantations
s'Read your commission, sir, again thunderet
| the Senator The officer is alive to-day. H'
did not turn traitor; and he was spared th'
pain of firing upon the city OF his birth